wild man

短语

未开化的人, 极端分子

词形变化

wild men 复数

别名

wildman

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A primitive man who dwells outside of civilized society; a savage person without culture.

  2. 2.

    A rowdy, dissolute, rash, or violent man.

    In no time, she has persuaded him to unleash his inner wild man, and soon they are washing down pills with booze and bouncing off the walls.

  3. 3.

    A man who advocates unorthodox or outrageous opinions or who behaves in an eccentric manner.

    In popular lore, Feynman often comes off as the wild man of physics, throwing out one crazy idea after another in a frenzied search for truth.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

man

词源

From Middle English wilde man. Cognate with Dutch wildeman (“wildman, savage”). By surface analysis, wild + man.

来源：wiktionary